TEHRAN – The Leader of the Islamic Revolution has cast doubt upon the view that jointing the Convention on Combating the Financing of Terrorism (CFT) may go without problems for Iran, calling it unnecessary to join such a convention.
Tehran Times: Ayatollah Khamenei: No reason for Iran to join FCT
“There is no reason why we should accept for their good points something that we do not know where it leads and even know to contain some problems,” Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said in a meeting with parliamentarians on Wednesday.
“Big powers draft such treaties according to their interests and expediency. Then governments which are aligned with them, or fear them, or follow them, ratify these conventions in their own countries.”
“Then if an independent country like the Islamic Republic rejects it, they attack it and say why it does not ratify it while 150 countries already have,” the Leader said, Fars reported.
He nevertheless underlined that “some of these treaties have positive points… The solution is that the Majlis defines rules of its own. For example a law on fighting money laundering; a law on fighting terrorism.”
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Update #1: Khamenei objects Iran’s joining anti-terror treaty (Al Arabiya)
Update #2: Iran's Khamenei says 'no need' to join global agreements (AFP)
WNU Editor: Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei just killed his own country's campaign to be removed from the blacklist of states who cannot or will not prevent money laundering and the financing of terrorism. The following analysis is spot on .... Iran's supreme leader just torpedoed his country's best chance to get off the terror financing blacklist (Toby Dershowitz and Saeed Ghasseminejad, Business Insider).
